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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax;
[syn: decapod crustacean, decapod]

2. cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Decapod \Dec"a*pod\ (d[e^]k"[.a]*p[o^]d), n. [Cf. F. d['e]capode.] (Zool.) A crustacean with ten feet or legs, as a crab; one of the Decapoda. Also used adjectively, as a decapod crustacean. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

decapod n 1: crustaceans characteristically having five pairs of locomotor appendages each joined to a segment of the thorax [syn: decapod crustacean, decapod] 2: cephalopods having eight short tentacles plus two long ones